BOUNDLESS RESOURCES OF CHRIST’s EMPOWERING GRACE IMPARTED THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT OF TRUTH

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BOUNDLESS RESOURCES OF CHRIST’s EMPOWERING GRACE IMPARTED THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT OF TRUTH

Jesus said to His disciples, “I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you forever; even the Spirit of truth.” John 14:16,17, KJV.

Before offering Himself as the antitypical sacrificial Victim, verily the Lamb of God at Calvary “Christ sought for the MOST ESSENTIAL AND COMPLETE GIFT to bestow upon His followers, a gift that would bring within their reach the BOUNDLESS RESOURCES OF GRACE. [John 14:16-18 quoted. Read it].

“Before this the Spirit had been in the world [see Gen. 1:2]; from the very beginning of the work of REDEMPTION He [the Holy Spirit] had been moving upon men’s hearts. But WHILE Christ was upon the earth [for 33 1/2 years and only 3 1/2 years public ministry from His baptism to His crucifixion], the disciples desired NO OTHER Helper. Not UNTIL they were deprived of His presence would they feel their NEED of the Holy Spirit, and then He could come.

“The Holy Spirit [never any Pope!] is Christ’s Representative [Vicar], but divested of the personality of humanity, and independent thereof. Cambered with humanity [all the limitations of man’s nature four thousand years after the fall], Christ could NOT be in every place PERSONALLY [He partook of the same flesh and blood nature as His brethren, Heb. 2:14].

Therefore it was FOR the disciples’ interest that He SHOULD go to the Father, and then send the Holy Spirit as His Successor on earth. NO ONE then could have ANY ADVANTAGE because of his location or personal contact with Christ. By the Holy Spirit Christ [and His empowering. saving grace] would be ACCESSIBLE TO ALL.

In this sense He would be NEARER to them than if He had not [in His permanent adopted human nature in the Incarnation] ascended on high.

“This promise [of His grace imparted by the Holy Spirit] belongs to US NOW as it belonged to the first disciples. Let every church member kneel before God, and pray earnestly for the IMPARTATION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.

Cry, ‘Lord, increase my faith. Make me to understand Thy Word; for the entrance of Thy Word gives light. Refresh me by Thy presence. Fill my heart with Thy Spirit.’ Amen.

“At all times and in all places, in all sorrows and in all afflictions, when the outlook seems dark and the future perplexing, and we feel helpless and alone [like now], the Comforter will be sent in answer to the prayer of faith.” (From God’s Amazing Grace, p. 191). Bless all, NMF